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Wayland maybe, but Pulseaudio and SystemD are nasty ugly things that need to die a fast death.

One of the most stupid things I read. I didn't like PA in the past, but it's very good now. Like you can see it's very good on smartphones, too. systemd is simply brilliant unlike the mess like sysvinit.

I still think I'd rather have a pipeline that introduces a very small amount of latency but is as flexible and power-saving as PA, over a pipeline that has zero added latency but doesn't have the features or power savings of PA. It's hard to have both (indeed the maintainers of JACK2 recognized that you can't really have both, by recognizing the separate usefulness of PA and JACK.)

Having two servers is not an optimal solution and at some point the devs should look into merging it into one that will be able to handle Studio Work and Joe Average user work.

I don't see how exactly; wouldn't having everything in same package over-compliacte the "one" sound server for everyone? ...if it's acknowledged by both sides that it's not going to happen I would assume that there's pretty hard reasons to why.

Wayland maybe, but Pulseaudio and SystemD are nasty ugly things that need to die a fast death.

There's nothing wrong with pulseaudio, It was only pushed too early into ubuntu and fedora before it was ready. I haven't had problems with it in ages. So sick of the ridiculous hate comments it gets for no reason.

I don't see how exactly; wouldn't having everything in same package over-compliacte the "one" sound server for everyone? ...if it's acknowledged by both sides that it's not going to happen I would assume that there's pretty hard reasons to why.

my comment was from the end user POV and thats all that matters IMO

right now if you want to do something music related (DAW) you have to go through all the "trouble" of installing jack removing PA or setting it up to work side by side etc. etc.

you don't have to do the same stuff for example in Mac OS X or Win. you just install the software you want to use afaik

i seem to recall Lennart saying something (in an interview) that the reason for not doing it was lack of manpower but i might be wrong here.

In that case it's not necessary for drastic changes like merging two sound servers that obviously can't be merged (in sense of code, community, API etc...). A better support for Jack in PulseAudio would be more appropriate. I think that Ubuntu Studio tried something like that but I'm not sure what came out of it.